Ilyen, amikor egy önjelölt "libertáriusnak" elgurul a gyógyszere
But [Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of Buckingham] doesn’t deal in seconds, or even years, but millennia. Everything started to go wrong after the Stone Age, he says. The advent of agricultural societies deprived most humans of liberty and turned them into slaves and serfs. In the Stone Age, people lived as they now do in Balliol.
Then came the Bronze Age and command economies (think of the pyramids), and it was downhill all the way. Decline accelerated in the 16th century thanks to Francis Bacon, who is widely credited with inventing scientific method, and who argued that research was a precondition for progress and should be supported by kings and princes (ie the state). Bacon, Kealey says, was “a crook, a cheat and a fraudster”, and science isn’t as he described it at all.
That was bad enough, but three centuries later came free, compulsory education. This was quite unnecessary, in Kealey’s view, because the churches were already educating the majority of under-11s, and Victorian England had near-universal literacy before the 1870 Education Act. Fees were modest and waived for the poorest. Free education was a state power grab, designed to undercut the voluntary schools, and it has been a disaster.
Ezen még talán Ron Paul is csak röhögne. (Nehogy valaki most azzal jöjjön, hogy “de valójában a maga módján igaza van”, mert nincs időm szajbarágni, hogy miért nem.)
June 29, 2010, 12:48pm
